Star Trek - Watch Order: Original Timeline

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1979 - 200210 Films18h 48m3.8 Average

This watch order focuses exclusively on the original Star Trek film continuity, spanning from the late 1970s through the early 2000s. These ten films continue the stories from the classic television series, following both the original crew and the Next Generation characters.

The first six films provide a conclusion to the original crew's adventures, while the final four films showcase the Next Generation era. This timeline maintains the authentic Star Trek continuity without the alternate universe complications.

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture poster

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

19792h 11m3.6
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei

When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan poster

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

19821h 52m4.4
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan

The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.

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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock poster

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

19841h 45m3.7
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Cast: William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig

A surprise visit from Spock's father provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence.

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home poster

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

19861h 58m4.2
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei

When a huge alien probe enters the galaxy and begins to vaporize Earth's oceans, Kirk and his crew must travel back in time in order to bring back whales and save the planet.

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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier poster

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

19891h 46m3
Director: William Shatner
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei

A renegade Vulcan with a startling secret hijacks the U.S.S. Enterprise in order to find a mythical planet.

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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country poster

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

19911h 50m4.1
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei

After years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace summit when a Klingon ship is nearly destroyed by an apparent attack from the Enterprise. Both worlds brace for what may be their deadliest encounter.

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Star Trek: Generations poster

Star Trek: Generations

19941h 57m3.6
Director: David Carson
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years.

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Star Trek: First Contact poster

Star Trek: First Contact

19961h 51m4.3
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.

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Star Trek: Insurrection poster

Star Trek: Insurrection

19981h 42m3.6
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, F. Murray Abraham

When an alien race and factions within Starfleet attempt to take over a planet that has "regenerative" properties, it falls upon Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise to defend the planet's people as well as the very ideals upon which the Federation itself was founded.

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Star Trek: Nemesis poster

Star Trek: Nemesis

20021h 56m3.5
Director: Stuart Baird
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan political leader, Shinzon, who claims to seek peace with the human-backed United Federation of Planets. Once in enemy territory, the captain and his crew make a startling discovery: Shinzon is human, a slave from the Romulan sister planet of Remus, and has a secret, shocking relationship to Picard himself.

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